Denise moved from Parry Sound to Glen Allan, north of St. Jacobs and Kitchener-Waterloo, this past year to marry Steve, the love of her life. The staff at West Parry Sound Health Center, where Denise worked as a registered Nurse, gave her a great send off. One of the gifts they gave Denise was a portrait package gift certificate from Bayshore Photography.
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Denise, Steve and many of their family at Denise and Steve’s wonderful home in Glen Allen, a short distance north of St. Jacobs and Kitchener-Waterloo. We did a range of images of Denise and Steve in their beautiful home and then moved out back to their huge back yard, which just happens to back onto the Conestoga River, for a number of family shots.
This area is in the heart of Southern Ontario’s farm country and has an interesting blend of farms and craft people making it an interesting part of Ontario to visit and explore.
I recently did a family portrait session with Lori, John, Emily and Abbey at their home a short distance from Parry Sound. I have done several portrait sessions with this family in the past, starting with Emily as a baby (she is now 4 years old!). The last time I had photographed the family it was just before Christmas a couple of years ago and we did a series of images in my studio, just north of Parry Sound. This time we opted for mostly outdoor images using the great grounds that surround their lovely home as a backdrop. We had a great time, and Emily and Abbey soon got into the swing of things, showing me the frogs in their back yard pond, their awesome playhouse, play set, and huge sandbox. I love working with Lori, John and their girls and being able to capture images of the girls as they have grown from babies to amazing young children with wonderful personalities.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting and working with members of the Gunner-Orton Family. The photo session was part of a celebration of Neil and Jenny’s 50th wedding anniversary which will occur abit later this summer. Their daughter, Simone, had contacted me several weeks earlier about doing a portrait session for Neil and Jenny and their extended family. In this day of fast paced busy lives it is difficult to get entire families together and this family was no exception with some traveling from the northern USA, Barry’s Bay, and Oakville to Neil and Jenny’s Bracebridge home. Even though the weather had threatened heavy showers I felt that we would be lucky and we were! As I pulled into Bracebridge the showers shopped and gave us a wonderful 1.5 hour window to gather everyone at Bass Rock Park and do the shoot. I love this tiny park. It has a real Muskoka look and feel and is a real hidden gem with even some long time Bracebridge residents not knowing where it is. I have used it before to shoot bride and groom and wedding party shots for some of the weddings I have shot in Bracebridge and clients seem to love it’s mix of water, rock and pines. I have posted a few of the images from our session below.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of doing a series of business portraits for Dr. Lori Lahti and the associates and staff of Dentistry on the Bay, a modern, professional dental clinic located in Parry Sound Ontario. Dr. Lahti recently had an ultra modern clinic built to house her growing business and she was after a range of images of her associates and staff. As Dr. Lahti wanted white background for the images I took my portable back drop stands, a 12 foot roll of white backdrop paper, my Alien Bee studio lights , and other gear, into her clinic and we set up a portable studio in the front of the office and did the shoot during an extended lunch and business meeting that Dr. Lahti had scheduled. I opted to go for a white high key look and had a blast working with Dr. Lahti, and her team. These gals are high energy and high on life! We got some great images and I am sure that you will see many of them over time on the Dentistry on the Bay website and in Dr. Lahti’s print material. Below are a few of the images we captured. Thanks Lori, it was a fun shoot!
I do a lot of family portraits always have some favourites from each session. With Fathers day fast approaching I thought it would a good time to post a few of my favourite father and son and father and daughter images. Wishing a happy Fathers Day to all those fathers out there.
It’s always great to have repeat clients. Recently Barb Kerr, a popular financial consultant with Investors Group Financial Services Inc. in Parry Sound, called to say she wanted to get together to do an update of her business photographs. I had done some business images of Barb a few years earlier so I was happy to have the opportunity to work with her again. We found a date and time that worked for Barb’s busy schedule and did a range of in studio, head and shoulder style shots that would met the criteria set out by Investors Group head office. I often like to incorporate the outdoors and a range of poses in my photography, even in business shots, but in many situations, such as this one, businesses, have strict criteria regarding the type of shots that are used on their business site and publications e.g. (indoors, plain, solid color background, specific size, etc…). If you, your family or your friends would like to talk to some with a strong track record of helping people meet their financial goals give Barb a call at (705) 746-8753 or Toll Free 1-888-746- 1500, to arrange a no fee, no obligation consultation.
For a change of pace I thought I would highlight a few images from a shoot did early last spring for BOT Construction Group. Nancy, BOT’s executive administrator, contacted me about doing a shoot of the women they had working on the massive rebuilding of the Highway 11 near Sundridge Ontario. Nancy wanted to highlight how BOT was employing a large number of women on the site.
While doing the shoot, I was extremely impressed with the obvious enthusiasm these women had for their work. The other thing that struck me immediately was the diverse roles they were fulfilling on the site. This went far beyond the traditional flag person role. These women were driving an impressive aray of BIG, BIG equipment, providing on site health and safety oversight and much more… These girls were clearly doing it all!
Shortly after I had finished the shoot Nancy contacted me to let me know how pleased they were with the outcome and that they were using several images from the shoot in two promotional posters proudly featuring the Women at Work, building Highway 11 through Sundridge Ontario.
